The Times on Scottish school guidance

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www.thetimes.co.uk/article/record-tally-of-scottish-children-with-gender-issues-38zkf95sb?shareToken=33e7d012b01734fa23a95214e6fd9d6d

Apparently the Scottish government has now said that it doesn't formally endorse the guidance. Frankly it's unbelievable that any organisation can endorse guidance with this type of anti - safeguarding approach .

betsy oh yeah so many places rolled it out before it was law that it being pushed back made no difference (parallels!!) Edinburgh do seem particularly...problematic.

What's the difference between supporting the guidance and endorsing it?

What's the difference between supporting the guidance and endorsing it?

Good question. I'd like to know the answer to this.

Support = they can say "we didnt endorse this" when girls start getting pregnant (or worse)

The Council I work for said they didn't need to do an impact assessment on this as they didn't write it and it was only guidance. I disagree because they sent it out to schools saying they endorsed it as the Scottish Government did, but it was clear that they intended schools to use it.
I suspect if something happened to a girl in one of the Schools because of this guidance they would say it wasn't policy and blame the school for not understanding.
There are now some choices they can make.

a) revoke the guidance - which they may do quietly without any fuss
b) continue to endorse it but very quietly so no legal challenge.
As they are very bad at admitting when they make mistakes I suspect they will go with b.